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[Field notes] 1928

by: Hamlin, Hannibal, d. 1982; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection; American Museum of Natural History; Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

Publication date: 1928
Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Topics: Birds, Description and travel, Travel, Scientific expeditions, Hamlin, Hannibal, d. 1982, France (Schooner), Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)
Collection: fieldnotesclir2016; biodiversity; amnhfieldbooks; americanmuseumnaturalhistory
Contributor: American Museum of Natural History Library
Language: English
Rights: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions
Rights-holder: American Museum of Natural History Library
Item Size: 15.0M

Handwritten in pencil. Sheets likely taken from a carbon copy notebook

Catalog of contraband skins collected by Hamlin in Papua New Guinea while on the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Data includes type, sex, specimen number, location collected, general notes and some dating. Localities include the Louisiade Archipelago, D'Entrecasteaux group, the Trobriand Islands and Woodlark Island. Estimated date in late 1928 based on trip itinerary and other journals. Hannibal Hamlin was an American neurosurgeon who traveled with the Whitney South Sea Expedition beginning in 1927. After original leader Rollo Beck retired, Hamlin was appointed leader of the expedition from March 1928 until January 1930. He left the expedition in August 1930

Specimen numbers 36084 through 36457, also numbered 1 through 375

Part of AMNH Ornithology Archives

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant

Abstract: Catalog of contraband skins collected by Hamlin in Papua New Guinea while on the Whitney South Sea Expedition. Data includes type, sex, specimen number, location collected, general notes and some dating. Localities include the Louisiade Archipelago, D"Entrecasteaux group, the Trobriand Islands and Woodlark Island. Estimated date in late 1928 based on trip itinerary and other journals. Hannibal Hamlin was an American neurosurgeon who traveled with the Whitney South Sea Expedition beginning in 1927. After original leader Rollo Beck retired, Hamlin was appointed leader of the expedition from March 1928 until January 1930. He left the expedition in August 1930.
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Call number: 100220733
Call-number: 100220733
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Genre: Field notes
Identifier: fieldnotes192800haml
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t2n63vz29
Identifier-bib: 100220733
Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 11.0
Pages: 24
Possible copyright status: In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the rights holder.
Ppi: 310
Scanning-institution: American Museum of Natural History Library
Year: 1928